My 1 cent (Amateurs shouldn't get 2 cents).
As I got older I realized the less I have to change fingering the less I had
to worry about lip to fingers co-ordination
Joe
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Kenny Leadfoot Betts wins a year supply of Marvel Air Tool oil. He was very
close to guessing the location of the lost horn part of the Ravel Pavane
travesty. He did not include the leaf blower nose flute and solo flatulence by
Aunt Noreen. In reality the horn solo was meanderingly sprinkled
Taking this thread back a little closer to where it started...
The other night at a read-thru-stuff-from-another-group's-library session of
the Richmond Symphonic Winds, we encountered an arrangement of the theme from
the second movement of Tchaikovsky's 5th, transposed down a major third,
Agreeing with the reasons for the Open fingering for the F side of the horn for
the 4th line D here is another way to look at it from a band instrument
perspective. Your trombone students have to have their slide positions right
and have to learn to hear their notes properly. You can't expect
Instead of dictating the absolutes, why not give the kids a choice let them
take responsibility for their own musical decisions? Have them listen to
feel the difference between 1st finger D and open D see which sounds best on
their own instrument? This could be a good opportunity to teach
Hans, as he usually does, hit the nail squarely on the head. Knowing what
the note is supposed to sound like is the first step, fingering come second.
Solfeggio is one way to get there.
Now for an example from Solfeggio from one of the classic groups of the
early 1960s, visit
At 5:08 PM -0600 2/9/08, Bill Gross wrote:
Now for an example from Solfeggio from one of the classic groups of the
early 1960s, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uw03hS_EMY
Interesting their first four words - do, mi, fa,
do. Good for a baseball player - 750. I heard sol
instead of fa.
On Feb 8, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Mark Syslo wrote:
Open or 1 on 4th-line D?
Open, of course, as everyone else has pointed out.
I was switched to horn from trumpet in middle school. I was
essentially handed the horn and, I suppose, a fingering chart, and
compliant kid that I was, I dutifully
Problems with tires? That's a problem for your crew chief. He gets paid to take
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Bill, in Harrisburg, NC, just a Short Call away from the speedway, wondering
what it's going to be like with Jimmy, Jeff and Junior all racing for Hendrick
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I'm glad I read to the bottom of the digest before casting my yen.
Hans said exactly what I was thinking: viz.
It does not matter, what fingering you teach your young band
members, if they do not HEAR the right pitch, - if their ear
training is inadequate. Pressing down the right key does not
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